/ Town Hall
Wednesday 7th March 2018
CALVIÀ TOWN HALL SUPPORTS WOMEN'S DAY STRIKE
Municipal councillors encourage women to join the 8M's call
Counsellors and manageresses of Calvià Town Hall have taken a photo today to support the morning strike, coinciding with the International Working Women's Day. In this way, they want to make known their commitment to women, defend their rights, and equal policies that help to move towards a more fair and balanced democratic society in the decision making between women and men.
In addition, they encourage participation in the strike as a vindicating measure before the widespread view of women's inequality in employment. And why, despite the advances, serious gender discrimination and gender stereotypes still persist that prevent women from participating in equal conditions in all areas of society.
For this reason, furthermore, the Calvià Town Hall has been challenged to conclude this year the drafting of the municipal equality plan, which contemplates the measures to facilitate the labour, family and personal life conciliation.
Likewise, they acknowledge the advances that have been made over the last decades in terms of equality, as well as some setbacks and cuts that have occurred in equality policies, especially in the local area due to the legislative change that has modified substantially the competencies of the councils in these areas. There can not be a truly democratic society if it is not able to eliminate the sexist behaviours and attitudes that offend more than half of the population. And this machismo, the fruit of the most rancid and most harmful patriarchy for women, extends in all areas, from the family field, to the social and work field to the most cruel of manifestations, such as gender violence that is exercised over women.
The objective is a society free of machismo, for which they demand measures and policies for a true social change that supposes an extensive structural transformation in which women are protagonists and co-participants. In this sense, one of the greatest inequalities that women live corresponds to the work environment, so they call for a law that helps to eradicate the different situations of discrimination that women have in employability, professional promotion, elimination of the salary gap, which together with job insecurity and temporary employment, make up the backbone of women's labour inequality.
